Example sentences of "up [prep] the high [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 2 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 3 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 4 | Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart . |
| 5 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 6 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 7 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |